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PATHWAYS GREEN PHILOSOPHY
Pathway totally believe in sustainable habitat and try to do its bit towards securing the environment for the future. As an educational institute, it is their responsibility to sensitize these young minds towards nature and its importance. After all they only will carve the future environment. And what better way to make them understand then to walk the talk. There have been some vey innovative approaches undertaken in the building facilities that area comtributing hugely in terms of reducing the carbon footprint. And what makes this even more interesting is intelligent out of the box approaches like introducing some old-age indian architecture technique that not only makes the buildings environmental friendly but also make them more cost effective. India has a long history of ancient civ ilizations and kingdoms. In those days there were no technologies available, still the architecture was such that the buildings faired very good in terms of internal conditions both in strong summers and cold winters. There were simple architechtural techniques that were used to reach these kinds of conditions. Today with the advent of technology and the advancements therein, when we speak of green building, normally we try to use more technologies. But if we fall back on the ancient indian architecture, there are far easier and more effective ways of creating green architecture!! At patheway, they rely on these simple architectural techniques to build green campus, guven below are some of the silent features.
Figure 7.25. Picture 1 Pathway Source: https://www.pathways.in/aravali/aravali_green_pathways
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